Urban Growth and Landscape Dynamics

📋 Course Outline

1. Urbanisation and urban growth
2. Urban structure and functions
3. Urban challenges and solutions
4. Weathering and karst processes
5. Coastal landscapes
6. Fluvial landscapes

📖 1. Urbanisation and urban growth

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Urbanisation : Urbanisation is the increasing number and concentration of urban areas over time.
• Urban growth : Urban growth is the increase in the size of urban populations driven by population growth and migration.
• Settlement types : Settlement types are categories of where people live, used to compare urban areas over time and space.
• Population increase : Population increase is the rise in the number of people living in urban areas from natural growth and migration.

📝 Essential Points

• Urbanisation can be studied by comparing the number and the location of urban areas over time.
• Population growth in urban areas comes from natural increase and in-migration.
• Migration into cities is a direct driver of urban population increase.
• Different settlement types are used to describe how urban areas develop across regions.

💡 Memory Hook

Think of Urbanisation as a map getting more “urban dots” over time.

📖 2. Urban structure and functions

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions